Sentences with phrase «growing federal role»

Dr. Michael Usdan, IEL senior fellow and former president, recounts the pivotal turns in the federal - state relationship throughout American history and offers a critical analysis of the growing federal role since the 1960s and the increasing influence and visibility of the federal government in education matters.

They need to distinguish their positions from Obama's «centrist education reforms» and «to win over a Republican base that resists a growing federal role in education.»

Not exact matches

And as federal agencies have been drawn into an ever - growing role in the cryptocurrency boom, their efforts to guard their digital gold have led to surprises, stumbles, and sometimes sin.

«So far, the Trump Presidency has seen businesses flourish and employment grow, though the ongoing supportive role played by the Federal Reserve has undoubtedly played a part here as well, and wealth inequality remains a prominent issue,» said Michael O'Sullivan, CIO for International Wealth Management at Credit Suisse.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

But there was growing uneasiness about the role of the federal government.

The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities.

Where I grow frustrated with Common Core opponents is when they exaggerate the federal role in this endeavor and minimize the key role played by the states.

Meanwhile, legislating by fiat, Duncan is ensuring that partisan fissures over the Common Core are likely to grow and that conservatives will feel compelled to push back on this supersizing of the federal role.

This was a yin - and - yang exercise — as the federal role grew, the opportunity for states to exercise their constitutional oversight of public education and for local school boards to effectively supervise its delivery diminished.

And since those early days, the federal role in education has only grown, both in terms of its size and scope, as well as its cost to the American taxpayer.

At the same time, I show how and why the role of the federal government in the governance of the American education system has grown dramatically in recent decades, to the point that, in practice if not in its rhetoric, the federal government has begun to act like a national school board.

The bill «unfortunately continues to propagate the large and ever - growing role of the federal government in our education system — the same federal government that sold us failed top - down standards like Common Core,» Cruz, who didn't vote, said in a statement Wednesday.

First under George W. Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act, then under Barack Obama and a long list of intrusive initiatives, the federal government's role in education has metastasized, growing more and more aggressively in recent years.

Although the federal government contributes less than 10 percent of the funding for K - 12 schools — the rest comes from a mix of state and local funding — the federal role in our nation's schools has grown over time.

(Va.) New research showing the growing role federal funds play in local school budgets also puts a spotlight on the pending sequestration cuts and the ongoing partisan gridlock that still rules Congress.

Recently reauthorized and newly proposed programs signify a growing federal government role in facilitating college access, affordability and accountability.

The need for controlling risk for farmers, ranchers, bankers, multi-national corporations, even the Federal Reserve Bank and the Treasury Department themselves has grown along with the role of the speculator to absorb that risk and provide much needed liquidity to the marketplace.

For decades, the federal government's role in Americans» energy choices has steadily grown and has ballooned under the Obama administration.

The decision of the Federal Court in Voltage Pictures LLC v. John Doe and Jane Doe, 2014 FC 161, provides insight into the collision of Norwich Orders, means used to identify unknown infringers, and the growing business model of copyright trolls giving rise for the Courts to be more mindful of playing a role in potentially abusive behaviour of the trolls.

Only within the last half century has the complexity and size of the Federal Government's responsibilities grown so greatly that the Congress must rely on the legislative veto as the most effective, if not the only, means to insure its role as the Nation's lawmaker.

The assistant commissioner at the time, Denham explained in this ITBusiness.ca video that the federal office might need stronger powers and grow beyond its ombudsman role if it was to be effective in an era of social networks and geo - locational technologies.

In recent years, change in the Canadian legal landscape has been fuelled by two dominant factors: first, the growing influence of constitutional concerns, including federal / provincial division of powers issues and a variety of matters arising from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and second, the burgeoning number and power of Charter - oriented administrative tribunals that play an increasingly influential role in our complicated, interest - based society.